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TIL that Santa Claus in the Marvel Universe is the most powerful mutant ever detected by Cerebro

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V8vZ TIL George Lucas got his head stuck inside the mouth of Bruce the mechanical shark from Jaws. Steven Spielberg thought it would be funny to close its mouth on him as a prank, but Bruce malfunctioned and George was trapped
e0BKn TIL that in apartheid South Africa, a bus driver was fired for refusing to pick up a Japanese man (considered white at the time), but was reinstated after he stated he couldn't tell the difference between a Japanese person (white) and a Chinese person (not white).
pL7A TIL the only photographs showing the moment Robert Kennedy was shot were not used in court but sealed for twenty years. When the photographer asked to have them back he was told they were accidently burned. Reappearing after a lawsuit they were then stolen from the courier transporting them.
BrY1y TIL about Nábrók, or "necropants." According to Icelandic witchcraft, these are pants made of human skin that produce an endless supply of money.
VBdbG TIL a wildlife park in the UK took in five parrots during the pandemic that have a healthy NSFW vocabulary and have taught other parrots to swear. Zookeepers are concerned that they could have up to 100 parrots who know how to swear and would require all sweary parrots to be taken off display.